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This open course will offer a comprehensive approach to undertaking sibling assessments. It will explore who the key contributors to sibling assessments are and how assessors can plan assessments and engage these contributors in the process. Most importantly it will explore how to gain the views of the children, observe sibling interactions and draw conclusions on the quality of sibling relationships as well as focusing on the individual needs of each child and of the sibling group.

Cohort 2 - Autumn 2022

The course will demonstrate how objects can be used as an accessible tool to evoke, release and relieve emotions, how objects can become a safe home for these feelings, and how a focus on objects can free the imagination and promote creative practices and relationships.

Cohort 1 - Autumn 2022

The course will demonstrate how objects can be used as an accessible tool to evoke, release and relieve emotions, how objects can become a safe home for these feelings, and how a focus on objects can free the imagination and promote creative practices and relationships.

FREE EVENT
CoramBAAF and Research in Practice are delighted to be working together to host an online event aimed at policy professionals, practitioners and those involved in Kinship Care about the recommendations of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care for kinship care and how to support practitioners unlock the potential of family networks.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
This session will explore neurodiversity in the context of social work employment. A lack of awareness about neurodiversity in social work settings can lead to insufficient support for neurodivergent employees. It will consider ‘What is neurodiversity?’ and ‘How can we create workplaces that are accessible for neurodivergent people?’

FREE FOR MEMBERS
This webinar will explore this study to examine the characteristics of children placed with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adopters, and to examine children’s problem behaviours and positive psychosocial adjustment across the three family types.

FREE EVENT FOR MEMBERS ONLY
Join our monthly Wellbeing sessions, a place for our members to reflect on and boost their personal wellbeing. They will take place on the first Wednesday of every month, from 12pm to 1pm. These sessions will be led by therapeutic social worker Hedwig Verhagen. This month's session will focus on 'Encouraging Connection through Objects'.

FREE EVENT
This year the theme of National Adoption Week is maintaining relationships in adoption. We are running three webinars to reflect this. Our first webinar will focus on the topic of birth family relationships for adopted people and will explore what and how things need to change. Delivered by Professor Beth Neil, Director of Research from the UEA and expert in post-adoption contact, who will be joined by speakers with lived experience.

FREE EVENT
This year the theme of National Adoption Week is maintaining relationships in adoption. We are running three webinars to reflect this. Our second webinar will examine what part do relationships play in the operation of our children’s social care services. Delivered by Daniel Foster, Head of Policy & Engagement from the Department for Education and Dr John Simmonds OBE, Director of Policy, Research and Development at CoramBAAF.